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Wed 12 Nov, 2008 02:08 pm
Microsoft takes 7 years to fix security exploit
Quote:Microsoft on Tuesday released a security update, MS08-068, which addresses an NT LAN Manager reflection vulnerability in the Server Message Block protocol. The exploit was discovered in 2000, and the code was first published back in March of 2001.
That means that a known security vulnerability related to a Microsoft authentication protocol sat on your Windows box for more than seven years, waiting for Microsoft to get around to fixing it:
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